HMCS BRAS D’OR at Museum Marine du Quebec. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL58196)
Earnest Lapointe and BRAS D’OR
Former Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Earnest Lapointe and former HMCS BRAS D’OR at Museum Marine du Quebec. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL58194)
HMCS BRAS’D’OR
The Royal Canadian Navy hydrofoil, HMCS BRAS’D’OR, FHE400, designed and built in Canada, she was ahead of her time. BRAS’D’OR is now laid up as a museum ship on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River at Musée Maritime du Québec, 55 chemin des Pionniers Est, L’Islet, Quebec and is well worth a visit. Roger […]
HMCS BRAS D’OR’s Stern
Stern view of HMCS BRAS D’OR hydrofoil and propellors. BRAS D’OR is preserved at Musée maritime du Québec at L’Islet, Quebec. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL58203)
HMCS BRAS D’OR
HMCS BRAS D’OR at Museum Marine du Quebec. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL58195)
Throwing Away Canadian History, ex-HMCS ATHABASKAN to go to Breakers!
With a simple internet post, another piece of Canadian history is about to be thrown away and the legacy of an entire era will be relegated into oblivion. This week on 2 November 2017, the Department of Public Works and Government Services Canada posted for tender, “Disposal of former ATHABASKAN (W8482-182411/A).” On the surface it […]
HMCS BRAS D’OR
HMCS BRAS D’OR, Anti-Submarine Trawler, foundered in the Gulf of St. Lawrence during a storm on 19 October 1940. There were no survivors from her ship’s company of five officers and twenty-five sailors. BRAS’D’OR had sailed from Clark City on Quebec’s North Shore to shadow the Romanian steamship Ingerner N. Vlassopol. The freighter had sailed from […]